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A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks.
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Several years ago, Mayo Clinic's famed Digestion Expert Walter Clement Alvarez started a notebook in which he collected experiences of patients whose appendixes had been reft from them.
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The best lines in the Cantos are very good indeed: What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee .
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What right had he to look upon life as a broken thing simply because one side of its joys had been reft from him?
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
Or the charm that thou seekest is reft of its power;
From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa
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